Executive MBA Online from Lisbon, Portugal

Build your next chapter without leaving the city you call home. The Executive MBA, delivered online in an exclusive partnership between the University of Cumbria and Robert Kennedy College, offers a way to develop your leadership and strategic thinking while living and working in Lisbon, Portugal. Its ideas and frameworks can be applied across industries and international borders.

Earn a British Degree with International Recognition

Graduating with a British degree can help you communicate your achievement to employers and professional networks around the world. The Executive MBA brings the academic award of the University of Cumbria together with the online learning experience of Robert Kennedy College.

Whether your ambitions are rooted in Lisbon or reach across borders, the degree offers a credential to support conversations about leadership, progression and new opportunities in international settings.

Complete Your Studies 100% Online in as Little as One Year

Your ambitions need not wait for a move abroad or a lengthy break from work. The programme can be completed 100% online in as little as one year, allowing you to pursue a British degree while continuing to build your life and career in Lisbon.

That focused path can make advanced study feel more achievable when time matters. You can bring fresh perspectives from your studies into your professional thinking as you work towards graduation.

Study Without Fixed Online Attendance Times

Leadership roles and personal commitments rarely follow a classroom timetable. The programme does not require you to be online at specific times and dates, giving you room to plan study around your responsibilities.

Read after work, revisit a lecture when you have time or set aside a quieter part of the week for deeper reflection. This flexibility lets you establish a study rhythm that works for you.

Take Your Learning Wherever You Go

Although you may be based in Lisbon, your studies need not stay there. You can study from anywhere in the world, whether you are at home, travelling for business or spending time abroad.

Through the mobile app, you can download study material and watch lectures offline. It is a practical way to keep learning while on the move, even when a reliable internet connection is not available.

Apply Ideas Through Open-Book Assessments

Instead of classical question-and-answer exams, the programme uses open-book assessments. This approach gives you an opportunity to engage with concepts and consider how they inform decisions and challenges.

For an experienced professional, the value of learning often lies in making connections: between theory and practice, between a new framework and a familiar problem. Open-book assessment encourages that kind of thoughtful engagement.

Learn with Faculty Shaped by World-Renowned Universities

Learning is enriched by the perspectives of tutors and faculty who have graduated from world-renowned institutions, including Oxford, Harvard, EPFL, the University of Basel and Washington University in St. Louis.

Their varied academic backgrounds can introduce you to different ways of approaching strategy, management and leadership. As you develop your own perspective, you can draw on insights that extend beyond any one institution or country.

Join a Truly International Learning Community

Students come from more than 130 countries, creating opportunities to encounter viewpoints shaped by different markets, careers and experiences. Studying online from Lisbon can connect you with peers whose professional questions may be familiar, even when their contexts are very different.

Alumni work for international organisations including DHL, Louis Vuitton, Bosch, CK Hutchison, BASF, Nestlé, Unilever, Daimler, BMW, Audi, the United Nations, Google, ICRC, the World Bank, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, Tencent, Siemens and Sony. Their career paths illustrate the breadth of sectors represented in the wider learning community.

Plan Your Investment with Interest-Free Instalments

Making time for an Executive MBA also means planning for its cost. The programme's fees can be paid in up to 18 monthly interest-free instalments, giving you a way to spread payments over time.

That flexibility can help you make a considered decision about when to begin. You can focus on your goals and your study plan with a clearer view of how payments may fit into your budget.

Bring New Perspectives to Lisbon’s Opportunities

Lisbon’s technology and startup scene brings together founders, growing businesses and international teams. For graduates working in this environment, an Executive MBA can offer frameworks for evaluating opportunities, leading through change and making strategic choices as organisations grow.

Tourism and hospitality are also important to Lisbon’s economy. Professionals in these sectors can use broader management perspectives to think about service quality, operations and long-term strategy while responding to changing customer expectations.

With activity spanning financial and professional services, trade and logistics, Lisbon offers many settings in which management skills matter. Whether you hope to advance within an organisation, lead across functions or explore a new direction, the programme can help you approach your next step with greater perspective and confidence.

Make Your Next Move from Lisbon

Your current location can be the starting point for an international learning experience. Explore the programme, imagine where it could take you and Request our course catalogue.